Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 00:32:09 +0000 (UTC) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r50436 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201707030032.v630W9kO092686@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Mon Jul 3 00:32:09 2017 New Revision: 50436 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/50436 Log: Add 2017Q2 Annapurna Labs ENA entry from Michał Krawczyk Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.xml Sun Jul 2 21:49:30 2017 (r50435) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.xml Mon Jul 3 00:32:09 2017 (r50436) @@ -545,4 +545,76 @@ somewhat easier.</p> </body> </project> + + <project cat='kern'> + <title>&os; Driver for the Annapurna Labs ENA</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Marcin</given> + <common>Wojtas</common> + </name> + <email>mw@semihalf.com</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Michał</given> + <common>Krawczyk</common> + </name> + <email>mk@semihalf.com</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/enhanced-networking.html">Enhanced Networking Guide</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>ENA (Elastic Network Adapter) is a 25G SmartNIC developed by + Annapurna Labs and is based on a custom ARMv8 chip. This is a + high performance networking card available in AWS offering. + It introduces enhancements in network utilization scalability + on EC2 machines under control of various operating systems, in + particular &os;.</p> + + <p>The goal of &os; enablement is to provide top performance and + a wide range of monitoring and management features such + as:</p> + + <ul> + <li>multiple queue modes</li> + + <li>hardware offloads (rx and tx checksum)</li> + + <li>admin queue</li> + + <li>asynchronous notifications</li> + + <li>robust hardware access</li> + + <li>a scalable number of MSI-X vectors</li> + + <li>hardware counters</li> + + <li>watchdog mechanism</li> + + <li>LRO</li> + + <li>RSS</li> + </ul> + + <p>The driver is now available in kernel source tree since + r318647.</p> + </body> + + <sponsor>Annapurna Labs — an Amazon company</sponsor> + + <help> + <task>Add RSS configuration from userspace (sysctls).</task> + + <task>Add support for LLQ mechanisms.</task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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